Water & Air – Filter Systems News

We just wanted to briefly announce the publication of one of our new buyer’s guides. If you’ve been wondering how to go about buying a shower water filter, look no further!

This guide lists many of our most popular shower filters made by Sprite, AquaPure, Rainshow’r and Culligan. Shower filters typically reduce chlorine, which is very important, as prolonged, daily exposure to this chemical often happens in the steamy shower environment and has been known to cause numerous respiratory ailments, including asthma. Owning a shower water filter can help greatly improve your health. It is just one of several home water filters you may want to consider. For more on this, check out our article, “The Advantages of Shower Water Filters.”

If you have any questions about the air and water filtration products we carry, please don’t hesitate to contact our air and water filter experts at 1.866.438.3458, or visit our water quality forums, online.

Our whole house water filter systems buyer’s guide is meant (like all of the other buyer’s guides on our site) to assist you, the consumer, with your decision to opt for fresh, clean filtered water in your household. Here are just a few things about whole house water filters, and what makes them unique:

1. They are designed to remove sediment, dirt, sand, rust and heavy metals from your water. All of these contaminants can be harmful to the household appliances which are connected to your home’s water line. Some whole house filters also effectively reduce the bad taste and odor of chlorine.

2. They filter much larger amounts of water than other conventional home water filters, including faucet filters, undersink filters and countertop filters. If you live in a large household, you may want to opt for a whole house filter, instead of, or even in conjunction with, one or more of these other filter systems.

Which whole house filter is right for you? Get your water tested, and then read our buyer’s guide to find out!

We recently published a post on buying water pitcher filters. But, since these hold very limited quantities,  if you live in a large household of four or more people who drink lots of water, then a water pitcher may not be the best choice for you. If you’re confused about what type of filter you need, you may want to take a look at our Simple Guide to Home Water Filters before reading any further. However, if you have plenty of counter space and a desire to filter a lot of water without having to replace your filters too often, you might want to invest in one of our Countertop water filters. Check out our Buyer’s Guide on Countertop Filters for more information, and stay tuned for more.

Many undersink filters come with a separate faucet mount, allowing you to switch between filtered and unfiltered water.

Filters Fast carries a wide variety of undersink water filter systems, along with many compatible filter cartridges. With so much choice, we thought you might need some help narrowing it down.

Our Buyer’s Guide on Undersink Filters includes reasons to buy an undersink filter system, along with the contaminants these types of systems typically remove, basic installation instructions, and a list of some of our most popular systems ranked “good, better and best.” Take a look, and if you have any more questions, feel free to give us a call or send an e-mail and we’ll be happy to help!

If the title of this blog post sounds familiar, it’s because we did one similar to it a few months ago, specifically on Brita and Mavea brand water pitchers. But that post was more about how to choose a water filter pitcher based on certain criteria. Once you’ve made your choice, you should know the best way to go about actually buying one. We recommend following these simple steps:

1. If you haven’t done so already, read our post on “How to Choose a Water Pitcher Filter.”

2. Organize the three considerations listed at the bottom of that post (contaminant removal, affordability, and design) by order of importance. Which of these is most important to you when deciding which pitcher to buy?

3. Check out our Buyer’s Guide on Pitcher Filters and click on the recommendations listed throughout the article for more information on each one.

4. Decide which water pitcher is best for your needs, go to the Filters Fast website, and add it to your shopping cart.

5. Complete the checkout process at FiltersFast.com. Be sure to go ahead order some backup compatible replacement filter cartridges while you’re at it!

There you have it. It’s that’s simple, folks.

Okay, so now that you’ve made it to the end of this post, we have a confession to make. Our main motive for writing this was to let you know about our Buyer’s Guide on Water Filter Pitchers. The only real difference between choosing and buying a water pitcher is step #5 – where you buy it from. In any case, we hope our Buyer’s Guide was able to point you in the right direction toward an informed decision. Until next time…

If the water and ice that comes out of your fridge has started to taste funny, you may be in the market for a new refrigerator water filter. It’s important to know exactly what you need before buying. That’s why we’ve put together a quick refrigerator water filter buyer’s guide to help you decide. Before you choosing your filter, research to find out which filters are compatible with your refrigerator model. This should help you narrow down the huge list on FiltersFast.com to just a few selections. Once you’ve narrowed it down, make sure you know what needs to be removed from your water and ice, and choose accordingly.

Perhaps you don’t currently own a water filter. If that’s the case, our Simple Guide to Home Water Filters can help you decide which type of filter is best for your household.

Which home water filter is right for you?

To find out, start by reading our Simple Guide to the Basic Types of Water Filtration. Then, test to see what’s in your water to determine the type of filtration you need.

Most of the water filters we carry employ carbon adsorption, which may also be combined with other types, such as ceramic filtration or reverse osmosis. To get an idea of which home water filter will accomplish your needs, check out our Simple Guide to Home Water Filters where you can narrow it down according to the size of your household, your preferences for drinking water and filtration maintenance, and your contaminant removal needs. We are also releasing more in-depth buyer’s guides for each home water filter category; simply click on the “How To” links in this guide to access them.

If you’ve been to the Filters Fast website, you probably know by now that we carry a HUGE selection of air and water filtration products. Scroll down the side of the home page and you’ll see over 40 brands of water filters in over 30 different type categories. Different filters serve different purposes and trying to figure out what type of filtration will best suit your needs can be a daunting task with over so many to choose from.

We’d like to make it easier on you so we are going to publish a separate buyer’s guide for each of our most extensive brand and type categories. But first, we’ll start with the basics. This simple guide to various types of water filtration should get you started in understanding the process behind the scenes – the first step in determining which products will best suit your specific needs. And each time we publish a new article or buyer’s guide, we’ll announce it here on our blog, so stay tuned for more!